Hosted by Tricia Fox · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 24 episodes
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Raw, real, and rambunctiously off-beat, this is entrepreneurialism in the real world, warts and all. With almost quarter of a century of running small businesses under my belt, I’ve been genuinely forced to admit: what do I really know?If you get the impression that it CAN be done, that it ISN'T difficult, and it's just YOU who doesn't get it, then this podcast is for you. howtobeshitatbusiness.substack.com
Tricia Fox hosts How to be Shit at Business Podcast, a business show with 24 episodes published.
I make hundreds of decisions a day. We all do. What clothes to wear, what to eat for breakfast, what time to leave the house, what to have for lunch, whether or not to have a cup of tea, whether to attend to that email o
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The return of The Night Manager is being heavily trailed in the run up to Christmas here in the UK. It’s causing me nightmares. The first series was excellent. But Tom Hiddleston’s bottom was the catalyst for a fairly ma
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It’s that time of year. Brace yourself for an onslaught of articles with 2026 predictions, new ways to set goals so you can actually achieve them this time, planning ideas (I admit, I’m a sucker for stationery to underta
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I was obsessed with Orphan Annie when I was about 6 years old. I watched it over and over and over again on my grandparent’s Betamax video player (remember Betamax? Nope, you’re right, VHS won that branding fight). I cou
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It was 1996. I was in third year of university and living in a tenement flat in Aberdeen. I had glandular fever and was tucked up nicely in bed, shivering with fever, when I started to notice something strange. What I di
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For any founder, deciding to liquidate is the ultimate admission of failure. Being forced to liquidate, even worse. There are millions of articles and blogs out there about starting businesses but very few about the end.
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It’s the easy subscription option to choose, isn’t it? Convince me your effort is worthwhile before I give you any money. It’s the unpaid summer internship to get the chance to learn. It’s the unpaid trial shift you do j
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It’s time to fess up. First of all, I’ll skip over the bit where I dribbled strawberry jam down my nice clean jumper while writing this article. Lesson learned: wear a bib. I’m going to share my guilty little pleasure wi
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This may be the crux of my many problems. I started my business without a plan. Not a f*****g clue what was trying to achieve beyond “being able to invoice someone legally”. This is not a joke. How to be S**t at Business
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One of the advantages of having been around the block a few times is that you usually experience things before they become popular and mainstream. My personal credit crunch happened about 12 months before the global cred
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We’ve all been there. A heavy cold, a particularly hacking cough, and before you know it your voice has retreated into a husk, and it’s barely a whisper. Losing your voice can be frustrating. But we mostly know it’s just
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Last week I wrote about making mistakes and how admitting to them seemed to be a fate worse than death. But why is that? And is there a different way to think about it? How to be S**t at Business is a reader-supported pu
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Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s former First Minister, has released her biography and, as I write, this is all over the news. I appreciate that by the time you read this article, some of these books will have made their way
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We’re just over ten articles in to this crazy journey around my entrepreneurial brain and it’s probably occurring to you that I might need professional therapy. There is a lot of s**t to process if you run a business. Li
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By modern standards, I’ve begun to believe I’m a terrible leader. Honestly, one of the actual worst. I’m wondering if this might be the basis for all my failures? Of course, I’m basing this assessment of my performance a
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Before we get into this, I am putting it on the record: I’ve never actually been to a fortune teller. This mistake is technically not my mistake, but I was involved in a way and, because of that, I’m going to share it wi
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This month the challenges have kept on coming. Sick dog. Dead dog. Massive project behind. Massive project delivered on time. Team member’s kids sick. Twice. Team member’s kids well. Yay. Team member’s kids sick. Again.
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There’s one day of the month where I feel truly sick to my stomach, and it’s not because I’m a woman. This kind of monthly affliction affects blokes too. This feeling of utter dread happens every month, without fail, the
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Everyone likes to think they are in control. Awake at the wheel. Captaining the boat. We set ourselves goals and objectives. We plan how we’re going to achieve them. We brief the team. Then we set off on the journey, all
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The thing about driving in life’s fast lane is that you are inevitably going to lose control. You know that feeling when you’ve misjudged the corner, and taken it too fast, and you’re just on the edge of crashing? That’s
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